The more things change...

A French proverb, which we totally ripped off and sent them home Sacrebleuing, paraphrases, The more things change, the more they stay the same.
After a 60 or 70 year respite from the 1% beating us with our own limbs, we've allowed them to regain control again.

They had control in 1863 when they tried to draft the beaten down NYC tenement denizens, while the 1% just paid $300 for a substitute. The riot that followed was the biggest insurrection in US history, other than the civil war itself.

In 1890, Jacob A. Riis published a book about it called, "How the Other Half Lives".

A sample.

Awesome find Bruce.

During the riots, the New Yorkers lynched blacks.

Here's an interesting fact:

When the levees were being built along the Mississippi River (pre-insurrection), plantation owners hired Irish immigrants because the work was too dangerous to risk a slave

[OlsonJohnson] All right... we'll give some land to the niggers and the chinks. But we don't want the Irish! [/OlsonJohnson]